A 12-year-old girl from Abu Dhabi, UAE calls her father and claims that she has been kidnapped, the kidnappers want iPad as a ransom. The father in shock contacted the police immediately after the girl's call which took the case in its hands. The father tried to call the girl a number of times but found her cell switched off.  “I tried her number but she was out of range. She later called and told me she ha ...

Michael William Cook, 17, of Acworth, Georgia has been charged for hacking cell phones and distributing private pictures on porn sites. 9News reports that the teenager was arrested on eight counts of cruelty to children and one count of sexually exploiting children. Police has informed the media that Cool was arrested on Wednesday from his school at Harrison High School for hacking and posting explicit imag ...

Metropolitan Police Department is planning to setup cybercrime classes for investigators at a local police station to avoid any kind of wrong arrest and misunderstanding.  The classes are planned to avoid unusual circumstances like last year when four innocent men were arrested for spreading virus, later it was discovered that their computers were hacked and used as zombies to conduct criminal activities by ...

  Samsung has launched its new Samsung Galaxy S 4 handset and will soon throw it in the market. This news has given scammers and cyber criminals, the leverage to go all knotty with their claims. Earlier in the day today, I fell upon a scam on Facebook which said that Samsung is giving out about 5000 Samsung Galaxy S 4 to all lucky fans who like and share a photo and who will like a page of this handset ...

Matthew Keys who is the deputy social media editor of Reuters has been recently charged for being involved in an anon attack on a website which was conducted by Anonymous hacker’s group. The connection of Matthews with the website is that it belongs to his former employer and his attorneys briefed out that he communicated with the hacker’s group as an undercover journalist. Now that’s 007 for you. Attorney ...

An unknown foreign gambler at a casino had hacked security surveillance cameras in Melbourne's biggest scam at the Crown Casino. HeraldSun reports that a casino employ has been sacked for helping the gambler and infiltrating the casino's surveillance system. The scam was discovered over eight hands of cards played in a short space of time and police is now investigating the biggest scam of the casino in las ...

MatthewKeys, a social media editor at Thomson Reuters Corporation has been accused of allegedly conspiring in the hacking and helping Anonymous hackers with login details  of his former employer the Tribune Company, owner of the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times and other news outlets. Matthew Keys, of Secaucus, N.J., was working with Tribune Broadcasting as a web producer before going freelance few months ago ...

A young heartless mum has been arrested for an attempt to sell her Children on Facebook to bail out her husband from jail. The 22 years mother from Sallisaw, Oklahoma, named Misty VanHorn was contacting people to buy her kids via Facebook. Local police at Sallisaw told media that the 22 years old mother Misty tried to sell her 10-months old baby for $4,000 (£2,680) and two years old for $1,000 (£670). While ...

UAE, which has been one of major regions of cyber crimes, got a really good new last Friday, when police arrested a gang that was involved in a fraudulent activity of Dh6 billion. The gang was involved in breaching many of the leading company’s accounts. After several days of investigation the Dubai smartly tracked the gang and arrested them. The step from Dubai police has been appreciated by the world of i ...

A Pakistani student in UK will be extradited to the US from UK over computer hacking allegations stemming from an FBI sting operation.    The 24 years old student identified as Usman Ahzaz, was admitted to a university in Britain in order to get a degree in information systems and computing failed the bid to avoid extradition from Britain to the United Stated. The hacker was arrested as a request made ...